And even if they did, it would sorta defeat the purpose of having a colour printer if it couldn't print yellow (or any of the colours that are generated therefrom)
It's a "Web filtering" application. Of course there's "good" uses for a product like this, depending on your point of view. A company's IT department might want to block out things like Hotmail and Gmail to prevent people from using company time to write personal emails (or browsing slashdot on company time... whoops!). A library/school might want to block out adult sites. Unfortunately, there are plenty of wonderful censorship uses for said software as well.
I'm not 100% on all the details, but I'm pretty sure NTP's main patents behind this lawsuit were all invalidated by the patent office. However, THIS particular supreme court case was some jurisdiction issue that RIM was dealing with, if I recall. Once they're back in district courts, RIM should be good to go.
I'm at 78 megs in 1.5b2, with about 3 hours in my current browsing session. I'm at work, though, so I haven't been browsing as heavily as I normally do. And I *don't* use session saving or undo close tabs.
Yeah, but Ireland is even more of a tease... You look at Dublin, and it seems all normal and stuff... Roads and everything! Except wait! You actually SEARCH for said roads, and despite the fact that Google is showing them to you, it says "No results found!" Grrrr.
Are you running in Windows? Do you leave your Firefox up and running at all times? I'm sure this isn't a huge issue for most people, but I always have Bugzilla sitting open on my work machine, and I rarely log out, so Firefox NEVER closes... And I've noticed this on every XP machine I've used.
God I hope so... it seems as though when you open tabs and close them, those tabs are just hanging around somewhere in the background... Phantom tabs!!:)
Have they at least fixed the problem where if you use Windows FF in a "one window" mode (tabbed browsing, all new windows in new tabs instead) and leave it open for a couple days, the memory never seems to get released? That's my only real quibble with Firefox (and it doesn't prevent me from using it, I just have to shut down FFox every morning when I get to work and restart it). It's kinda concerning to have one tab open, look into process explorer and see the FF is using 180mb of RAM.
Actually, I know at least a couple of the dvd playing software packages do NOT allow you to ignore region coding. My version of PowerDVD only allows 5 switches between regions (so if I want to watch my North American dvds that I brought with me here to Dublin, I have to be careful about it). Kind of a pain in the arse, really.
I *totally* found that his is exactly what happened when I was trying to train my Nero guys to go around obstacles in a bit of a maze to find the enemy. They ended up loopty-looping around, which eventually got them around the corners, and so they never learned to just run straight around the damn thing because the guys who were doing that didn't find the enemy soon enough. Definitely a neato game, but a bit on the frustrating side.:)
In Canada this is already the case. There is a tariff on blank digital media, that goes to paying artists for stuff that has been copied onto it. And there's no way to say "I am only using this for backup purposes, please take off the tariff". In fact, our laws are 31 different flavours of confusing on the subject - the last consensus I heard was that it is almost certainly legal to download music off the net, but not legal to share it with anyone else. It falls under the "personal copying" side of things, in theory.
They went to all this effort, maybe to lower traffic bills, who cares what the real reason was... but now the site will get Slashdotted so any money saved on avoiding international viewers, is pooched.:)
Ummm... Openstep/Nextstep predates Java and C# by a fair amount. Perhaps it's Java and C#, that have never heard of *step?
Of course, having said that, I coded for 2 years in Openstep on Windows, and it SUCKED. This was pre-Yellowbox, though... and as much as I *loved* objective C, the framework for doing OpenStep apps was horrible.
Well, "Vega" would be the german pronunciation of "Wega"... so what with Sony being a clearly German company... oh wait... hrmm... and they're not French either... Well maybe their marketing departments used to be in Germany, and now they're in France?
You're right! Baen kicks a lot of butt when it comes to sharing their content... But they are far and away the minority. What I would LOVE would be the ability to buy every Heinlein Baen book in one big package...
Actually, I know WHY they chose the name... I just think it's a dumb name. They're clearly trying to build some kind of brand recognition with the e(acuteaccent)... started with the CLIe(acute) and now moved on to the LIBRIe(acute)... It's just not very creative, IMO.
Well, if I'm using it to read books (I would never use it for newspapers) then I have no problem if it's in black and white. And it actually looks like paper! Woohoo!
Man, now you've got tons of people who can't pronounce CLI, you want to have them mangling the pronunciation of the LIBRI too?
As a side note - why in the world are e-books so damn expensive? I'm sorry, but if I can get a paperback for 10 bucks, I'm not going to shell out $25 for an e-book. Kazaa, here I come!
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And even if they did, it would sorta defeat the purpose of having a colour printer if it couldn't print yellow (or any of the colours that are generated therefrom)
Empty white spots on a white page, yes.
It's a "Web filtering" application. Of course there's "good" uses for a product like this, depending on your point of view. A company's IT department might want to block out things like Hotmail and Gmail to prevent people from using company time to write personal emails (or browsing slashdot on company time... whoops!). A library/school might want to block out adult sites. Unfortunately, there are plenty of wonderful censorship uses for said software as well.
I'd much rather read Wikipedia's History of Windows[Wikipedia] entry instead.
I'm not 100% on all the details, but I'm pretty sure NTP's main patents behind this lawsuit were all invalidated by the patent office. However, THIS particular supreme court case was some jurisdiction issue that RIM was dealing with, if I recall. Once they're back in district courts, RIM should be good to go.
I'm at 78 megs in 1.5b2, with about 3 hours in my current browsing session. I'm at work, though, so I haven't been browsing as heavily as I normally do. And I *don't* use session saving or undo close tabs.
Yeah, but Ireland is even more of a tease... You look at Dublin, and it seems all normal and stuff... Roads and everything! Except wait! You actually SEARCH for said roads, and despite the fact that Google is showing them to you, it says "No results found!" Grrrr.
Are you running in Windows? Do you leave your Firefox up and running at all times? I'm sure this isn't a huge issue for most people, but I always have Bugzilla sitting open on my work machine, and I rarely log out, so Firefox NEVER closes... And I've noticed this on every XP machine I've used.
God I hope so... it seems as though when you open tabs and close them, those tabs are just hanging around somewhere in the background... Phantom tabs!! :)
This isn't new... I've been seeing this problem since 1.0.
Have they at least fixed the problem where if you use Windows FF in a "one window" mode (tabbed browsing, all new windows in new tabs instead) and leave it open for a couple days, the memory never seems to get released? That's my only real quibble with Firefox (and it doesn't prevent me from using it, I just have to shut down FFox every morning when I get to work and restart it). It's kinda concerning to have one tab open, look into process explorer and see the FF is using 180mb of RAM.
Actually, I know at least a couple of the dvd playing software packages do NOT allow you to ignore region coding. My version of PowerDVD only allows 5 switches between regions (so if I want to watch my North American dvds that I brought with me here to Dublin, I have to be careful about it). Kind of a pain in the arse, really.
Video games down - next step, region-encoded dvd's? If only...
Any site administrator worth their salt can protect images from being cross linked or copied.
Alt-printscreen baby. Nothing you can ever do will defeat that. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but if I want your images, I can get em.
I *totally* found that his is exactly what happened when I was trying to train my Nero guys to go around obstacles in a bit of a maze to find the enemy. They ended up loopty-looping around, which eventually got them around the corners, and so they never learned to just run straight around the damn thing because the guys who were doing that didn't find the enemy soon enough. Definitely a neato game, but a bit on the frustrating side. :)
In Canada this is already the case. There is a tariff on blank digital media, that goes to paying artists for stuff that has been copied onto it. And there's no way to say "I am only using this for backup purposes, please take off the tariff". In fact, our laws are 31 different flavours of confusing on the subject - the last consensus I heard was that it is almost certainly legal to download music off the net, but not legal to share it with anyone else. It falls under the "personal copying" side of things, in theory.
They went to all this effort, maybe to lower traffic bills, who cares what the real reason was... but now the site will get Slashdotted so any money saved on avoiding international viewers, is pooched. :)
Ummm... Openstep/Nextstep predates Java and C# by a fair amount. Perhaps it's Java and C#, that have never heard of *step? Of course, having said that, I coded for 2 years in Openstep on Windows, and it SUCKED. This was pre-Yellowbox, though... and as much as I *loved* objective C, the framework for doing OpenStep apps was horrible.
Well, "Vega" would be the german pronunciation of "Wega"... so what with Sony being a clearly German company... oh wait... hrmm... and they're not French either... Well maybe their marketing departments used to be in Germany, and now they're in France?
You're right! Baen kicks a lot of butt when it comes to sharing their content... But they are far and away the minority. What I would LOVE would be the ability to buy every Heinlein Baen book in one big package...
Actually, I know WHY they chose the name... I just think it's a dumb name. They're clearly trying to build some kind of brand recognition with the e(acuteaccent)... started with the CLIe(acute) and now moved on to the LIBRIe(acute)... It's just not very creative, IMO.
Well, if I'm using it to read books (I would never use it for newspapers) then I have no problem if it's in black and white. And it actually looks like paper! Woohoo!
Man, now you've got tons of people who can't pronounce CLI, you want to have them mangling the pronunciation of the LIBRI too?
As a side note - why in the world are e-books so damn expensive? I'm sorry, but if I can get a paperback for 10 bucks, I'm not going to shell out $25 for an e-book. Kazaa, here I come!